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Various types of wood-based boards were analyzed for deterioration after being exposed to an outdoor environment for 5 years in Tsukuba, Japan. In phenol–formaldehyde resin bonded particleboard (PB(PF)) and aspen oriented strand board (OSB(aspen)), longer exposure caused a greater reduction in the modulus of rupture and internal bond strength, an increase… (More)

Phenol–formaldehyde resin-bonded particleboard (PF board) and isocyanate resin-bonded particleboard (MDI board) were soaked in water at 40, 70 and 100 °C, and the relationships between soaking conditions and board properties were analyzed. The relationships between the deterioration of board properties resulting from water soaking and those arising from… (More)

In order to investigate the strength reduction of particleboards subjected to outdoor exposure at eight sites across Japan, the climate factors, i.e., temperature, sunshine duration, and precipitation were analyzed using a principal component analysis. The first principal component (PC1) had an eigenvalue of 2.31 and a proportion of 76.9 %, indicating that… (More)

The internal bond strength (IB) of a commercial particleboard put under various outdoor exposure conditions were modeled using a multiple linear regression (MLR) and an artificial neural network (ANN). The outdoor exposure data used in this study were collected from the results of past outdoor exposure tests conducted at eight locations across Japan from… (More)

Phenol-formaldehyde resin-bonded particleboard (PF board) and isocyanate resin-bonded particleboard (MDI board) were soaked in water at 40, 70 and 100 °C, and the relationships between soaking conditions and nail joint properties were analyzed. The soaking time to reach the lower limit of nail-head pull-through (NHPT) of the PF board was 2 h at 100 °C,… (More)

An air-injection press, which has holes punched in the heating plates, injects high-pressure air through the holes of one plate into particleboard and discharges the air through the other plate during press heating. The press can manufacture particleboard from high-moisture particles by controlling blowout of the boards. In this study, the optimum diameter… (More)

An air-injection press (AIP) was developed to prevent accidental blowouts of boards during production. In this study, the effects of the AIP on preventing blowouts were investigated by artificially creating a blowout-prone condition, and the press was shown to be effective in preventing blowouts. The modulus of rupture of the boards was almost constant… (More)

Particleboards of different densities (0.6, 0.7 and 0.8 g/cm3) and thicknesses (10 and 20 mm) were manufactured from low-moisture particles using an air-injection press. The effects of the air injection on preventing blowout of the boards of different densities and thicknesses were investigated by artificially creating blowout-prone conditions using metal… (More)

Particleboards with thickness of 10 mm and densities of 0.6, 0.7 and 0.8 g/cm3 were manufactured from high-moisture particles using urea–formaldehyde resin and the effectiveness of air injection was examined. The temperature in the 0.6 and 0.7 g/cm3 boards was lower with air injection than without during the initial to middle stages of pressing, while the… (More)

The relationship between climatic factors and strength reduction of particleboard subjected to various climatic conditions at eight sites in Japan was investigated. Climatic factors such as mean temperature, sunshine duration, and precipitation were analyzed by principal component analysis. The first principal component score was introduced as a climate… (More)